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{{Short description|Wildlife sanctuary in Mon district, Nagaland, India}}
{{Infobox protected area
| name = Singphan Wildlife Sanctuary
| iucn_category = IV
| image =
| image_caption =
| map = India Nagaland#India
| map_caption = Location in Nagaland, India
| relief = 1
| mapframe = Yes
| location = Mon district, Nagaland, India
| coordinates = {{coord|26.925|N|94.894306|E|display=inline}}
| area_km2 = 23.57
| established = 2009
| governing_body = Nagaland Forest Department
}}

'''Singphan Wildlife Sanctuary''' is a [[List of wildlife sanctuaries of India|wildlife sanctuary]] in the [[Mon district]] in the Indian state of Nagaland.<ref>{{Cite news |date=6 June 2024 |title=Dimapur Wildlife Division observes WED at Singphan Wildlife Sanctuary |url=https://www.easternmirrornagaland.com/dimapur-wildlife-division-observes-wed-at-singphan-wildlife-sanctuary |access-date=22 November 2025 |work=Eastern Mirror}}</ref> The sanctuary covers an area of approximately 23.57 km² (2,357 hectares) and was notified as a wildlife sanctuary in 2009. The area lies along the border with Assam and forms part of a contiguous forest tract important for elephant movement in the region.<ref>{{cite web |title=About Us |url=https://forest.nagaland.gov.in/about-us/ |access-date=9 August 2025 |website=Department of Forests, Environment, and Climate Change, Government of Nagaland |publisher=}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last=Pangging |first=Govinda |last2=Ao |first2=Aosanen |last3=Das |first3=Anup Kumar |title=Plant diversity and community characteristics in different disturbance regime in Singphan Wildlife Sanctuary, Nagaland, India |journal=International Journal of Current Research |year=2015 |volume=7 |issue=11 |pages=22955–22958 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/285499221_Plant_diversity_and_community_characteristics_in_different_disturbance_regime_in_Singphan_Wildlife_Sanctuary |access-date=9 August 2025}}</ref> In 2018, it was declared as an elephant reserve.<ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2018-08-31 |title=Nagaland govt declares Singphan Wildlife Sanctuary as Singphan Elephant Reserve |url=https://www.nenow.in/north-east-news/singphan-wildlife-sanctuary-as-singphan-elephant-reserve.html |access-date=2025-08-09 |website=NorthEast Now |language=en-US}}</ref>

== Biodiversity ==
The sanctuary has a tropical wet evergreen and moist deciduous forest types, with bamboo brakes and secondary forests reported in the protected area. It hosts over 180 plant species. Faunal reports and state documentation indicate presence of [[Asian elephant]] (Elephas maximus), and [[Jackal|jackals]]; the sanctuary is part of a landscape that facilitates seasonal movement of elephants between [[Nagaland]] and adjacent [[Assam]] reserve forests.<ref name="researchgate_285499221">{{cite journal |last=Pangging |first=Govinda |title=Plant diversity and community characteristics in different disturbance regime in Singphan Wildlife Sanctuary, Nagaland, India |journal=International Journal of Current Research |year=2015 |volume=7 |issue=11 |pages=22955–22958 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/285499221_Plant_diversity_and_community_characteristics_in_different_disturbance_regime_in_Singphan_Wildlife_Sanctuary |access-date=9 August 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Elephant Reserve — Singphan (details) |url=https://moef.gov.in/uploads/2022/08/Elephant-Reserve-of-India-an-atlas_final.pdf |publisher=Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change (Project Elephant atlas) |access-date=9 August 2025}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=8 August 2024 |title=3 jackals rescued by Chenwentyu villager released in Singphan Wildlife Sanctuary |url=https://www.morungexpress.com/3-jackals-rescued-by-chenwentyu-villager-released-in-singphan-wildlife-sanctuary |access-date=22 November 2025 |work=[[The Morung Express]]}}</ref>

== Conservation and management ==
The sanctuary is administered by the Nagaland Forest Department. As part of elephant conservation planning under [[Project Elephant]], the State Government (with central approval) notified the area as the Singphan Elephant Reserve in 2018. Management activities focus on habitat protection, monitoring of elephant movement and community engagement in fringe villages.<ref>{{cite web |title=Singphan Elephant Reserve notification (summary) |url=https://moef.gov.in/uploads/2023/11/PE-Elephant-Reserve-of-India-an-atlas.pdf |publisher=Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change |access-date=9 August 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=PTI |title=Singphan wildlife sanctuary declared 30th elephant reserve of the country |url=https://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/singphan-wildlife-sanctuary-declared-30th-elephant-reserve-of-the-country-118083101296_1.html |newspaper=Business Standard |date=31 August 2018 |access-date=9 August 2025}}</ref> It is the smallest Elephant Reserve in the country.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Pandey |first=Ramesh K. |last2=Yadav |first2=Satya P. |last3=Selvan |first3=K. Muthamizh |last4=Natarajan |first4=Lakshminarayanan |last5=Nigam |first5=Parag |date=2024 |title=Elephant conservation in India: Striking a balance between coexistence and conflicts |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/inc3.38 |journal=Integrative Conservation |language=en |volume=3 |issue=1 |pages=1–11 |doi=10.1002/inc3.38 |issn=2770-9329|doi-access=free }}</ref>

== Threats ==
Documented threats to the sanctuary and surrounding landscape include habitat disturbance from local resource use, road networks that increase access and edge effects, tree felling, grazing pressure in fringe areas, and potential land-use change in adjoining reserve forests. Research in the sanctuary has highlighted disturbance impacts on forest community structure and regeneration. Conservation management emphasises reducing anthropogenic pressure, improving habitat connectivity, and mitigation of human–elephant conflict in adjacent communities.<ref name="researchgate_285499221"/><ref>{{cite web |title=Forest Annual Report 2023–24 (extract: Protected areas, Nagaland) |url=https://forest.nagaland.gov.in/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Forest-Annual-Report-2023-24_compressed.pdf |publisher=Nagaland Forest Department |access-date=9 August 2025}}</ref>

== See also ==
* [[Fakim Wildlife Sanctuary]]
* [[Aoleang]]
* [[Rangapahar Wildlife Sanctuary]]

== External links ==

* [https://mon.nic.in/tourist-place/shangphan-wildlife-sanctuary/ Mon District webpage]

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

[[Category:Wildlife sanctuaries in Nagaland]]
[[Category:2009 establishments in Nagaland]]

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